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Banged-up cars and seizing ship engines. A slice of federal programs isn't going as planned.
The military services have been dithering with Congress over if and where to reduce their real estate footprint.
When U.S. Transportation Command transitioned a nearly $1 billion contract to move servicemembers’ vehicles around the world to a new company a year and a half ago, seemingly everything that could have gone wrong actually went wrong.
One of the Army’s key objectives is to bring reliable network access to smaller units at the company level and below. But DoD’s Office of Operational Test and Evaluation found the task has been complicated by the fact that too many of the systems the service is fielding are not exactly plug-and-play.
The latest reshuffling of the organizational chart is born out the current concerns among members of Congress that once DoD creates new bureaucracies they can never be shut down.
The Defense budget prioritized research and development and cyber, but that doesn't mean the third offset strategy is getting a lot of money in 2017.
There's failure and then there's failure. Big and small. One way to prevent the big ones is to develop tolerance for the small ones along the way. That's in part the idea behind a Pentagon drive to get more commercial innovation into its so-called third offset strategy. For what this means to contractors, Larry Allen, principal at Allen Federal Business Partners spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the topic.
For many agencies, the move to cloud computing services is predicated by policy, legal and contracting decisions made by more than just the chief information officer.
Defense experts warned Congress about creeping operating and support costs and suggested ways to rectify them.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Andrew Wong received a Congressional Badge of Bravery Tuesday from Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.).
The military services have been dithering with Congress over if and where to reduce their real estate footprint. But there is one spot in the world where the Army is undergoing a major expansion in real estate. Camp Humphries, South Korea is undergoing a multi-billion dollar makeover. Katherine Hammack, the Army assistant secretary for installations, energy and environment, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details of what's going on and why.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Obama administration's final Pentagon budget represents a turning point; high-end technologies will get more attention.
Fiscal 2017 may be the beginning of a funding gap between what the Defense Department needs and what it can be allocated unless Congress can fix the budget.
Last year, Google invested $100 million in Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company. The Defense Department has also turned to Crowdstrike as part of its third offset strategy. Just who is this outfit? Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione talked with Robert Johnston, a principal consultant at Crowdstrike, about where the U.S. is in cybersecurity and what he thinks it can expect. He shared that information on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.